Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-02-18
WaTY-NiNTH CUNGgESS.
second Session.
sen ATE.

a, WASHINGTON, Feb. II.
Mr. Hoar presented resolutions of tbe
massachusetts, legislature in favor of coa,t
oe ences and the building of a navy "that
VIII command tbe conf ience of the Ameri-
can people and the respect of other nations -
Inc Senate then took up the bill to provide
Tor an increase of the naval establi,bment
The amendment offered YESTERDAY bv Mr.
Butler requiring vessels to be for sea ser.
vice" VS. withdrawn.
The bill was then passed-veas 46, nav. 7.
The Senate then considered and passed 80
house bills Of minor Importance.
The Senate then at 2. NJ. resumed con.
slderation of the Esds Tehuantepec shin
railway bill, and Mr.. Vest offered a new AMI
stitute for the bill
Mr. Morrill, sp Ike of the project as bein o
vast and magnificent but its success was
proolematical The chances in il, favor
were Certainly not more than one in two.
tie hoped It would succ .ed. but he thought
that greater guards and security would be
placed around the issue of bonds.
Mr.. Van Wyck offered to this substitute
the same amendment that he offered to the
original one, that no certificate of stock be
Issued until 1t shall have been fully paid far
ln money at par value, and no bonds in ex
cess OF the amount of capital actually paid in
shall be issued. and no bonds be issued or
disposed OF at less than par value.
The substitute offered by MIR. Vest, as
amended by Mr.. Van Wyck, was agreed to
without division and the bill as thus amend.
ed was pissed-yeas 46, nays7.
The Senate then, on motion of Mr.. Ed
munds, took up the bill to incorporate the
Maritime Canal Co. of Nicaragua. 1t went
over until tomorrow as unfinished business
The Senate at l5 adjourned.
HOUSE.
The Speaker laid before the House a mes
sage from the President returning without
ms approval the bill appropriating $40, 900
Tor the special distribution of seed to the
drought stricken counties of Texas.
Lanham of Texas moved the bill and &C
companylng message be referred to the COM
mlttee on agriculture. The motion to refer
WAS lost. 81 to n. The question was then
put would the House pass the bill, Presidents 5
objections to the contrary outstanding.
and was decided in the negative, yeas SO,
nays 100.
Mr.. Hammond of Georgia called up the
conference report upon the anti Mormon bill
and spoke in its favor
MIR. Bennett of North Carolina and Mr..
Eden of lllinoi, spoke against it. Agreed to,
yeas POP, nays 40.
The Speaker appointed M .ssrs. Scott, Lam
nam and FELTON, as conferees on the trade dol
lar bill.
The House then went into committee of
the whole on the diplomatic and consular ap-
preparation bill
In order to simplify and facilitate consider
alton of the bill. Belmont of New York Of
fered substitute for so much of the bill as
has nor already hppn disnosed of
This substitute is framed so as to avoid the
points of order which would operate against
the original bill in the matter of reclassifca.
hon Of consular service. The existing class
iication is retained, thus cutting of the pro-
posed increase of salaries.
Provision for the appointment of two in
spectors of consulates is also omitted from
the substitute, and the appropriation for con-
tlngent expenses of consulales is reduced
from $500 900 to $3.50 900.
The substitute was agreed to and the bill
as amended reported to the House.
Mr.. Reed of Maine said by reason of nu-
merous points of order made against the bill
very many consuls had been deprived of sal
aries.
Mr.. Belmont stated that no consuls had
been deprive d of their salaries, but in several
cases the salaries had been reduced. A
cnaNge In rules he tn0ught TO be absolutely
necessary. 1t was unfair to the Senate that
IT should be constantly compelled to correct
the failure of the House to make a proper ap-
preparation.
That is precisely it," remarked Mr.. Reed
Mr.. Randsll-As far as | understand it,
the bill now makes the same appropriation
for diplomatic and consular service as the
bill OF the 47th Congress did.
MIR. Reed don't 40 understand il There
are restrictions here that go back to 100 and
something
Mr.. Randall was not here then.
Mr.. Reed object to the Senate being
saddled with those necessary appropriations.
1t has been the custom of the House to do
this. 1t is question which | have animad
verted upon several times and want to call
attention to it again.
The bill as amended was passed.
Mr.. Randall, from the committee on ap-
preparations, reported back the sundry civil
appropriation bill with Senate amendments
recommending concurrence in % of the same
amendments and non-concurreDce IN 1856
amendments.
In response to question by Mr.. Reed.
Mr.. Randall stated that the chief points in
controversy were relative to appropriations
for the coast survey the Seaman's Retreat in
New York and Yellowstone park.
The republicans demanded the reading of
amendments seratim.
Pending action the House, at so, ad-
ioprned